Sibirsky Extreme

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The Sibirsky Extreme Project covers a series of commercially sponsored exploratory motorcycle journeys into the northern areas of Russia and Siberia in 2009 and 2010 by Walter Colebatch and his occasional riding companions, Jonathan Fox, Tony Pettie, Terry Brown and Sherri-Jo Wilkins.
The Sibirsky Extreme Project (2009)
The Sibirsky (Siberian) Extreme Project was a 2009 adventure motorcycle project to explore the rarely visited regions of Siberia. The journey achieved numerous first rides: the Tuva Track; The Anabar Road up north to Udachny (over 66 degrees North); the Vilyuisky Trakt, a dirt track that runs 1500 kms eastwards (950 miles) between Lensk, Mirny and Yakutsk. The project also included the first attempt to ride both halves of the 4000 km (2500 mile) long legendary BAM Road, from Vanino on the Pacific Ocean to Bratsk in central Siberia.
Siberian Extreme 2010
In 2010 a second journey, Siberian Extreme 2010, included the first motorcycle tour on the legendary Road of Bones, during which Sherri-Jo Wilkins becoming the first foreign woman to ride the Road of Bones. Sibirsky Extreme 2010 also crossed Mongolia fully from East to West, and Walter Colebatch became the first rider to cross all 5 of Mongolia’s international land border crossings (Altanbulag, Sukhbaatar, Tsagaannuur, Dzamin Uud and Ereentsav).

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